Size & Fit

Sizing is the single thing that decides whether you keep a lehenga or ship

it back across the world. It is worth five minutes.

How to measure yourself — bust, waist, hip and

waist-to-floor, what to do when you fall between sizes, and the four

mistakes that cause most returns.

want, what each needs from you, and roughly what a tailor costs in the US.

Indian garment sizing is a published convention: **the India size number is

the bust measurement in inches.** India 38 is a 38 inch bust. Waist normally

runs about six inches below that and hip about three above, and US sizes sit

thirty below the India number.

Every product page that has sizes shows a table in inches with both the US

and the India size, and the page states that the figures follow that

convention. They are body measurements, not garment measurements.

Some pieces are sold free size, with a drawstring or elastic waist made to

cover a range rather than one size. Those pages carry no table. They do give

the skirt length, which is the measurement that actually matters for

whether a lehenga sits right on you — compare it with your waist-to-floor.

A semi-stitched lehenga is left open at the seams so the waist can be set to

you, and how much it can be let out depends on the piece.

**We are still confirming the allowance for each piece with our supplier,

and until we have it we will not print a number.** If you are between two

sizes on a semi-stitched piece, email

cedarstonestore@gmail.com with your measurements before you

order and we will check that specific garment for you.

Send us your bust, waist, hip and height, and the piece you are looking at.

We will tell you which size to take, and we will tell you if we think none

of them will fit. A sale we talk you out of costs us far less than a return

from the United States.